INPEC Meeting 2005

November 9th-13th, 2005
Ein-Gedi, Israel


Wednesday 9th
19:00 Dinner
21:00 Reception , Jazz Music in the Lobby

Thursday 10th
07:00 Breakfast

Session Drug Design and Dynamics
Chair: Mirek Cygler
08:00 Opening Remarks Joel Sussman
08:15 New spins on protein dynamics from NMR spectroscopy. Frans A.A. Mulder, Ulrika Brath, Mikael Akke, Lewis E Kay
08:45 Structure-based drug design on SARS protease and glutaminyl cyclase targets. Andrew Wang
09:15 From Genome to Drug Lead: Identification of a Small-Molecule Inhibitor of the SARS Virus. Yuan-Ping Pang
09:45 Coffee Break & Posters

Session Function
Chair: Osnat Herzberg
10:15 ANTICALINS: Protein Engineering of Lipocalins for Novel Binding Functions. Arne Skerra
10:45 Use of the Yellow Fever Virus for the Expression of Heterologous Epitopes. Richard Charles Garratt, Myrna C. Bonaldo, Marcos S. Freire, Mauricio Rodrigues, Ricardo Galler
11:15 Protein engineering using bacteriophage T4 foldon. Vadim Mesyanzhinov
11:45 Lunch
13:15 INPEC Business Meeting - Delegates Only

Session Folding and Unfolding
Chair: Adrian Goldman
14:00 Transient Structures, Ensembles of Structures and Transition States in the Protein Folding Process of a Four Helix Bundle – ACBP Flemming Poulsen
14:30 Study of the gradual protein unfolding by NMR spectroscopy Jianxing Song, Zheng Wei
15:00 A cytosolic complex for targeting proteins to mitochondria Nick Hoogenraad
15:30 Role of disorder in protein interaction networks. Peter Tompa
16:00 Coffee Break & Posters

Session Proteomics
Chair: Rick Wierenga
16:30 Proteome comparison on D. Salexigens cells. Belarmino A. Salvado Barata, Bruno M. C. Alexandre
17:00 Protein engineering to study the interaction between Ferredoxin NADP+ reductase and Feredoxin (or Flavodoxin). Carlos Gomez-Moreno
17:30 Acetylcholinesterase: Key Enzyme in Neurotransmission Moonlights with Unexpected Additional Roles?. Joel Sussman
18:00 Towards structural genomics of prophages. Sankaran Krishnaswamy
19:00 Dinner
20:15 Night Tour of Botanical Gardens
21:30 Israeli Folk Dancing in the Lobby

Friday 11th
07:00 Breakfast
08:00 Tour: Massada
12:30 Lunch

Session Mechanisms
Chair: Kosuke Morikawa
14:00 Inorganic pyrophosphate: one substrate, two mechanisms?. Adrian Goldman
14:30 Crystal structure of the human urokinase plasminogen activator receptor bound to an antagonist peptide. E. Stura, M.H. Le Du, M. Ploug, B. Gilquin, A. Menez
15:00 Structure and mechanism of heparin and heparan sulfate degrading heparinase II from F. heparinum. Miroslaw Cygler, David Shaya, Yunge Li, James Myette
15:30 Selectivity and promiscuity in protein:protein interactions controlling apoptosis. Peter Colman, Doug Fairlie, Erinna Lee, Peter Czabotar, David Huang
16:00 Coffee Break & Posters

Session Architecture of Active Sites
Chair: Peter Colman
16:30 The novel closed structure of an archaeal DNA ligase from Pyrococcus furiosus. Kosuke Morikawa, H. Nishida, S. Kiyonari, Y. Ishino
17:00 Chasing the function of hypothetical proteins. Osnat Herzberg
17:30 Loop-6 and loop-7 of triosephosphate isomerase: structural enzymological studies. Rik Wierenga, Markus Alahuhta, Marco Casteleijn, Peter Neubauer
18:00 Determinants of IgA1 protease specificity. Tony Warren, Emily Kwan, Jenny Woof, Jiazhou Qiu, Andrew Plaut
19:00 Dinner

Session Engineering Proteins
Chair: Nick Hoogenraad
20:00 Designed Ankyrin Repeats as Enzyme inhibitors. Andreas Plueckthun, Patrick Amstutz, Kaspar Binz, Petra Parikez, Markus Gruetter
20:30 Structural studies of the human chimerical plasminogen activator Amediplase® (K2tu-PA). Doriano Lamba, Alberto Cassetta, Cecilia Bartolucci
21:00 Music and Dancing in the Lobby

Saturday 12th
07:00 Breakfast
08:00 Tour Outings Options:
1. Hike in desert springs route
2. Dead Sea spa visit
12:30 Lunch

Session Protein Engineering Tools
Chair: Andreas Plueckthun
14:00 Bioinformatics Tools for Structural Proteomics. Jaime Prilusky
14:30 Simulating, Refining, and Modeling Supramolecular Complexes at Multi-resolution and Multi-length Scales Jianpeng Ma
15:00 Progress and Bottlenecks in a Decade of CASP John Moult
15:30 Coffee Break & Posters

Session Evolution
Chair: Tony Warren
16:00 The spectacular ribosomal architecture: From protein making to folding via the antibiotics binding pocket Ada Yonath
16:30 Design of the active site architecture of an enzyme for evolution of new catalytic function. Hak-Sung Kim, Hee-Sung Park, Sung-Hun Nam, Jin Kak Lee, Chang No Yoon
17:00 Evolution and Synthesis of New Function. Jason Chin
17:30 Generation of structurally distinct ovine prion protein soluble oligomers. Thomas Haertlé, Human Rezaei, Jeanne Grosclaude
18:00 Protein Evolution - the Theory and Practice. Dan Tawfik
18:30 Free Time
20:00 Festive Dinner

Sunday 13th
07:00 Breakfast
08:30 Transportation to the Weizmann Institute